Austrian teen who joined ISIS beaten to death for trying to leave terror group: report

An Austrian teen who ran away to Syria to marry an ISIS fighter was beaten to death when she tried to escape from the terror group.

An Austrian teen who ran away to Syria last year to marry an ISIS fighter was beaten to death when she had a change of heart and tried to escape from the terror group, local media reported.

Samra Kesinovic (CEN/Europics)

Sabina Selimovic

Islamic State fighters killed 17-year-old Samra Kesinovic after she tried to leave the terrorist-run city of Raqqa, a woman who once lived with the teen but successfully escaped the jihadists' reign told an Austrian tabloid.

Kesinovic ran away with her friend, 15-year-old Sabina Selimovic, last year. The two teens were considered "jihad poster girls" and were used by ISIS to inspire other young girls to join the fighters in Iraq and Syria.

Neither report clarified which of the teens had died, but the news of Kesinovic's alleged beating death seems to suggest Selimovic was the first of the two to be killed.

The girls came from Bosnian refugee families who settled in Austria after the Bosnian War of the early '90s. Both friends were born in Austria, but were eventually lured to Syria.

Experts believed the Austrian teens were married off to ISIS fighters and possibly sent onto the battlefield. Girls are increasingly used as fighters because the Islamic State believes that anybody killed by a woman cannot go to heaven.